The former man may make him: Bring us to him, | And take our goodly aged men by the beards, And chance it as it may. Flav. Here is his cave. Peace and content be here! Lord Timon! Timon! Look out, and speak to friends: The Athenians, By two of their most reverend fenate, greet thee: Speak to them, noble Timon. Enter Timon. Giving our holy virgins to the stain Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war; I cannot chufe but tell him, that-I care not, Tim. Thou fun, that comfort'st, burn! Speak, While you have throats to answer: for myself, Toward thee, forgetfulness too general, gross: A lack of Timon's aid, hath fense withal Together with a recompence more fruitful Tim. You witch me in it; Surprize me to the very brink of tears: 2 Sen. And thakes his threat'ning fword Against the walls of Athens. 1 Sen. Therefore, Timon,- There's not a whittle 4 in the unruly camp, But I do prize it at my love, before The reverend'ft throat in Athens. So I leave you Flav. Stay not, all's in vain. Tim. Why, I was writing of my epitaph, It will be seen to-morrow; My long sickness Of health, and living, now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things. Go, live ftill; Be Alcibiades your plague, you his, And laft fo long enough! I Sen. We speak in vain. Tim. But yet I love my country; and am not One that rejoices in the common wreck, As common bruit doth put it. 1 Sen. That's well spoke. Tim, Commend me to my loving countrymen,→→ I Sen. These words become your lips as they país through them. [ers 2 Sen. And enter in our ears, like great triumphIn their applauding gates. Tim. Commend me to them; And tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath. 2 Sen. I like this well, he will return again. Tim. I have a tree, which grows here in my clofe, That mine own ufe invites me to cut down, fhall find him. Tim. Come not to me again: but fay to Athens, Tim. Well, fir, I will; therefore I will, fir; Which once a day with his emboffed froth 6 Thus, If Alcibiades kill my countrymen, The turbulent furge fhall cover; thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.-Lips, let four words go by, and language end: That-Timon cares not. But if he lack fair What is amifs, plague and infection mend! Let Alcibiades know this of Timon, [Athens, The Athenians had fenfe, that is, felt the danger of their own fall, by the arms of Alcibiades. 2 Render is confeffion. 3 Allowed is licenfed, privileged, uncontrolled. 4 A whittle is ftill in the midland counties the common name for a pocket clafp knife, fuch as children use. 5 i.e. from highest 6 We have before observed, that when a deer was run hard, and foamed at the mouth, to lowest. he was laid to be emboss'd. 2 Sen. We stand much hazard, if they bring not Our fufferance vainly: Now the time is flush3, 1 Sen. Noble and young, Mef. I met a courier, one mine ancient friend ;--When thy first griefs were but a meer conceit, Who, though in general part we were oppos'd, Yet our old love made a particular force, Ere thou hadft power, or we had caufe to fear, And made us speak like friends :—this man was To wipe out our ingratitudes with loves riding S Above their 5 quantity. 2 Sen. So did we woo Transformed Timon to our city's love, 1 Sen. These walls of ours Were not erected by their hands, from whom For private faults in them. 2 Sen. Nor are they living, Who were the motives that you first went out; 1 Sen. All have not offended; For thofe that were, it is not fquare 7, to take, I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax; On thofe that are, revenges: crimes, like Larb, An ag'd interpreter, though young in days : Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman, + The I Dr. Warburton obferves, that dear, in the language of that time, fignified dread, and is found by Shakspeare in numberlefs places. Mr. Steevens fays, that dear may in this inftance fignify iss diate; and that it is an enforcing epithet with nit always a diftin&t meaning. 2 Arms acrois SA bird is flush when his feathers are grown, and he can leave the neft. Flash means mature. marrow was fuppofed to be the original of flrength. The image is from a camel kneeling to take up his load, who rifes immediately when he finds he has as much laid on as he can bear. refers to rages. The meaning is, "Shame in excess (i. e. extremity of fhame) that they ware cunning (ie. that they were not wife enough not to banish you) hath broke their hearts."" not regular, not equitable. 7 W 1 Enter a Soldier. Sol. My noble general, Timon is dead; Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea : And, on his grave-ftone, this infculpture; which With wax I brought away, whose soft impreffion Interpreteth for my poor ignorance. [Alcibiades reads the epitaph.] Here lies a wretched corfe, of wretched foul bereft & Seek not my name: A plague confume you wicked caitiff's left! Here lie I Timon; who, alive, all living men did bate: Pafs by, and curfe thy fill; but pass, and flay not bere thy gait. Thefe well exprefs in thee thy latter spirits: From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit Hereafter more.-Bring me into your city, 1i. c. unguarded gates. 2 Our brain's flow is our tears. 3 i. e. physician. TITUS TITUS ANDRONICUS, a noble Roman, General AARON, a Moor, belov'd by Tamora. against the Goths. Captain, from Titus's Camp. MARCUS ANDRONICUS, Tribune of the People, and EMILIUS, a Melenger. Brother to Titus. Young Lucius, a Boy, Son to Lucius. Goths, and Romans. Clown. TAMORA, Queen of the Goths, and afterwards married to Saturninus. LAVINIA, Daughter to Titus Andronicus. PUBLIUS, Son to Marcus the Tribune, and Nephew Nurfe, with a Black-a-moor Child. to Titus Andronicus. Senators, Judges, Officers, Soldiers, and other Attendants. SCENE I. Before the Capitol in Rome. ACTI. If ever Baffianus, Cæfar's fon, Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome, Enter the Tribunes and Senators aloft, as in the Se-And fuffer not dishonour to approach nate. Then enter Saturninus and bis followers, The imperial feat, to virtue confecrate, at one door; and Baffianus and his followers at To juftice, continence, and nobility : the other; with drum and colours. But let defert in pure election fhine; And, Romans, fight for freedom in your choice. Enter Marcus Andronicus aloft, with the Crown. Mar. Princes, that strive by factions, and by friends, Sat. NOB [OBLE patricians, patrons of my right, arms; And, countrymen, my loving followers, Ambitioufly for rule and empery! my right, A fpecial party, have, by common voice, For many good and great deserts to Rome; I Mr. Theobald fays, This is one of thofe plays which he always thought, with the better judges, ought not to be acknowledged in the lift of Shakspeare's genuine pieces. Dr. Johnson obferves, That all the editors and critics agree with Mr. Theobald in fuppofing this play fpurious, and that he fees "no reason for differing from them; for the colour of the ftile is wholly different from that of the other plays, and there is an attempt at regular verfification, and artificial clofes, not always inelegant, yet feldom pleafing. The barbarity of the fpectacles, and the general mailacre, which are here exhibited can fcarcely be conceived tolerable to any audience; yet we are told by Jonfon, that they were not only borne, but praifed." Mr. Farmer and Mr. Steevens are alfo of the fame opinion with Dr. Johnson. A nobler |